Wessel Lauren Elisabeth, Paulson Ambika E, Graesser Elizabeth A, Moore Amy M, Dy Christopher J
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA.
School of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
J Hand Surg Glob Online. 2022 Jan 22;4(2):65-70. doi: 10.1016/j.jhsg.2021.11.006. eCollection 2022 Mar.
Recent efforts have been made by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand to encourage female inclusion in expert panels. We hypothesized that female representation on expert panels has increased over the past decade and that a directed intervention by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand would be associated with an increased percentage of submissions with female panelists.
We performed a retrospective analysis of Instructional Course Lecture and Symposium submissions for the 2011 through 2021 American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meetings. Authorship was reviewed, and the gender of the proposed authors was recorded. Additionally, the status of "all-male panel" was attributed to panels with no proposed female authors. Submissions were reviewed and compared with meeting programs to determine the status of accepted or rejected. Longitudinal analysis was performed to determine trends in the gender composition of expert panels.
In total, 1,687 submissions were reviewed, including 1,323 Instructional Course Lectures and 364 Symposia. Female authorship constituted 18% of authorship (1,170/6,663), and lead authorship was similarly distributed, with 18% being female (296/1,687). Overall, female representation has increased steadily over the past decade, with females constituting 13% (43/332) and 20% (163/818) of the submitted authors in 2011 and 2020, respectively. Similarly, all-male panels declined from 74% (76/103) to 46% (85/185) of panels over the same timeframe. Most strikingly, a sharp increase in gender representation was observed with the directed intervention noted in the 2021 Call for Abstracts, resulting in an increase in female authorship to 26% (295/1,124) and a decline in all-male panels to 29% (70/241).
Gender representation among hand surgery expert panels moved toward increased equity over the past decade, which has been aided by directed interventions.
Career development and trainee decision making are impacted by gender representation; directed and intentional interventions by professional organizations are effective in encouraging greater equity and diversity within the field.
美国手外科协会最近一直在努力鼓励女性加入专家小组。我们假设在过去十年中，专家小组中的女性代表比例有所增加，并且美国手外科协会的定向干预将与女性小组成员提交的稿件比例增加相关。
我们对2011年至2021年美国手外科协会年会的教学课程讲座和研讨会提交材料进行了回顾性分析。审查了作者身份，并记录了拟议作者的性别。此外，“全男性小组”的状态归因于没有拟议女性作者的小组。对提交材料进行审查并与会议议程进行比较，以确定接受或拒绝的状态。进行纵向分析以确定专家小组性别构成的趋势。
总共审查了1687份提交材料，包括1323份教学课程讲座和364份研讨会。女性作者占作者总数的18%（1170/6663），第一作者的分布情况类似，女性占18%（296/1687）。总体而言，在过去十年中，女性代表比例稳步上升，2011年和2020年提交作者中女性分别占13%（43/332）和20%（163/818）。同样，在同一时间段内，全男性小组从小组总数的74%（76/103）下降到46%（85/185）。最引人注目的是，在2021年摘要征集通知中提到的定向干预后，性别代表性急剧增加，女性作者比例增至26%（295/1124），全男性小组比例降至29%（70/241）。
在过去十年中，手外科专家小组中的性别代表性朝着更加公平的方向发展，这得益于定向干预。
职业发展和学员决策受到性别代表性的影响；专业组织的定向和有意干预有效地促进了该领域更大的公平性和多样性。
